Developers in Morocco are planning to build the tallest building in Africa, and it looks just like Barad-dûr, the home of the dark lord Sauron, from the Lord of the Rings.
I mean, check out the screenshot from the architect's video (left) compared to the dark lord's tower (right).
The 540-metre-tall building will be called Al Noor Tower (the Tower of Light) and will be erected in Casablanca, Morocco.
The project is funded by Sheikh Tarek M. bin Laden and designed by French architect agency Volade et Pistre, as Jesus Diaz reports for Sploid. The team obviously has been living under a rock for the past 15 years and didn't notice the similarity, or are just really big fans of Lord of the Rings.
Either way, we can't decide whether it's an amazing or terrible idea. Soil testing for the building will begin in 2015, in the meantime you can see some of their designs in the video below.
Source: Sploid